Game device



M. E. BOSLEY ET AL GAME DEVICE Filed March 5, 1926 Feb. 8, y1927.

f h fr E s' AID-POKER U o V W I l 5:

d e Q1 Ki f p s 34 Q:

Patentes Febre, 1927.

UNITED STATES '1,616,884 PATENT OFFICE.

viirAzaIoN n BosLEY AND LEON .IAE KANE, oF OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA.

GAME DEVICE.

.Application led March 5, 1926. Serial No. 92,494.

Our invention relates to the game known as ad-poker. v

The object of the invention is to produce a game with the elements of sport, interest, and enthusiasm in it without the element of cheating or fraud entering therein; one which will be fair and in which `many persons may at the same time participate. Other objects, and novel features of the invention will be further shown by the specification, claims and one-sheet drawing, which drawing is a plan view of the eld to be published showing the letters of the alphabet, names of advertisers, dates of publication and suit, denomination, value or power of the cards and their location as to letters for respective days.

1 designates the field heading and 1a the name of the gamer at thel tp of the ield for the playing of the game; 2, 3, 4 and 5 designate four of the spaces of a total of 56,

in which said four spaces are placed printed instructions and rules as to how to play the game; 6, 6, 6, designate three A, B and C of the 26 capital letters of the alphabet, one respectively, being placed on each of the 26 spaces after the :tour squares 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the rules, the remainder, however, are not numbered .in the drawing; 7, 7, 7, designate.

a, b, c, three of the 26 small letters of the alphabet, one respectively, being placed on each of thet26 spaces after the placing of the last of the capital letters of the alphabet, the remainder are not given numbered designations in the drawing; 8, 9, lOand 11 designate respectively one y of the spade, heart, club and diamond suits. The suit, denomination, value or power of the cards 'are shown in the drawing be inning with the ace and ending with the in in each suit, and beginning with spades an continuing with hearts, clubs and diamonds. These, however, simply show-how a deal might be made. The deals will var as ach one is -made, according to the shu ing and dealing each separate day of the contest. 12, 12, 12 and 13, 13, 13, designate the date of the month on which the paper is published on each days issue of the paper during the contest and appear preferably near the upper lett hand corner of the respective spaces and to the immediate right of the designation in each respective space of the denomination of suit and the value and power ot the card. In the instances given 12, 12,12, in the .drawing show the date to be the 3 and appear in the spaces where capital letters A, B and C appear, and 13, 13, 13, show the date to be the 3" and appear in the spaces where the small letters a, b and c appear; the date in the remainder of the spaces is not shown, as they are the same throughout the 52 spaces and itbeing considered not necessary to show them.

In each of the 26 spaces designated by the capital letters of the alphabet is an advertisement of some firm; and in each of the spaces designated by the small letters of the alphabet there is an advertisement of the same firm if it carries only one advertisement; the same advertiser in each instance has the spaces designated by the same letter of both the capital and small letters of the alphabet as` his spaces, as will be more particularly shown by 14, 14, 15, 15, and 16, and 16a. 'lhe advertisements are designated on spaces A, B and C of the capital letters and a, b and c of the small letters. It is thought not necessary to till in the advertisements in the various spaces except sufficiently to illustrate the theory of the game. At 17, 18 and 19 and 20, 21 and 22 are shown the suit and value or power of six of the cards; in which 17 designates the ace of spades; 18 the two of spades; 19 the three of spades; 20 the ace of clubs; 21 the two of clubs; and 22 the three of clubs. The denomination suit, value and power of the remainder of the cardsare not shown by des-- ignated numbers as it is thought not necessary to show them in each space. To play the game of ad-poker, a poker deck of cards consisting of 52 cards exclusive of the joker is used and Vby the use of the double alphabet of the English language for the capitals and small letters. two advertisements each till the spaces in which are designated both the capitals and small letters of the alphabet and are published for thirteen consecutive issues. These, with the two advertisements each, of the respective advertisers, do not change throughout the thirteen issues.

The small igures designating the dates of the respective issues of the paper, change -with each issue, but the date of each issue so published appears the same in lall the 52 spaces for each respective date.

A designated person previous to the publication of each issue of the paper thoroughly 26 advertisers having shuies the cards and deals from the top card one card at a time turning each face up, plac.

ing the top card on the space.- designated by A,

, ard of Hoyle, and al then on B, and so on consecutively until the bottom card of thedeck is dealt on the space occupied by the small letter z. The ob]ect of the gameis to select thehighest hand of tive cards constituting a oker hand. The value of the hand is tol determined according to the rules of pokerby the standcases of doubt or dispute shall be referred to that basis lof standard for settlement. The hand is to be selected by the participant in the contest taking his initials of his name, three if he' has three initials, from the capital letters, and the necessary number required to make five from the first small letters of his surname. For instance: H. J'. Smiths hand would be H. J. S. lfrom the capital letters, and m. i. from the small letters. H. Smiths hand would be H. S. from the capital letters, and m. i. t. from the small letters. The value of his hand woulddepend on the suit, de-

nomination and value of the cards'for that day appearing 0n the letters constituting his hand of five letters. Each day of the contest his hand would be found under the same letday owing to a new shuiling and a new deal.

ters, but the hand would be different on each of the cards. Any person having' the published matter in the paper is eligible to takev part in the contest for that date, under the l' art to which our invention pertains, that the game though named ad-poker, is an entirely fair one; that no cheating can be done in operating it 'according to the rules; that there is no gambling in any way connected with it; and that the only element of chance is in the turning of a card by a disinterested person and the hand determined by the inltials and a portion of the letters of the name ofthe participant. The Held for the game is composed .of an advertisement in a paper comprising 52 spaces for advertising matter; four spaces for instructions for the game; and the heading thereabove and the name ad-poker in said heading; the-f* game is played with an ordinary deck of playing cards', exclusive of the joker. This is used in connection with the other partsot` the device constituting the invention. The next 26 spaces in the field after the lirst four spaces covered by the instructions, are each lettered by the capital letters oi the alphabet as A, B, C, etc., the next 26 spaces thereafter are lettered by the small letters'of the l' 1,616,384 l .f

alphabet, a,"b, c, etc.` Each advertiser has s thespaces occurrlng under a capital letter and a similar space under the same letter of the al habet 'in the smallletters throughout the whble period of the contest as A, a, L, l, etc.; it will be observed the advertising matter will not be changed throu hout the contest; the advertisements, and t econtest run fora period'of 13 days; each day o f the contest small figures designating the day of the issuance of the paper for that respective date appear in each of the advertising spaces; o n each day of' thev contest indica showing on each advertising space the suit,

-denomination and value or power of one of Ithe cards 1s shown as determined by a previous shuiiling and dealing ofthe cards by -a disinterested little girl, or other proper-person. It will be seen that thereby the cards and therefore the indiciathereo will differ on each day of the contest. Thecontest,shuf

fling, dealing, publication ofthe advertisement and the matter going to make up the game, and the canvassing the contest will be conductedby 'a disinterested committee, and the shufliing and dealing done in its `presence by a disinterested person, not a member of lsuch committee.

It will also be seen thatv there is no possiblity of any cheating or previous determination as to the successful participant; 'that the participant loses nothing-can lose nothing; that hispossibility of success depends on the initials and lirst letters of his surname, and a former fair shufliing, andl dealing 'of thecards, and a publication of the same in a newspaper.

From the description and the accompanying one page drawing, and the specification, the-advantages of construction, application and manufacture will be apparent. to those skilled in the art to which our invention pertains. -We have entered into a detailed de- I scription ofithe construction and relative arrangement of the parts embraced in the present and preferred embodiment of our invention in order to impart a full, .clear and exact understanding of the said embodiment. We do not desire, however, to be understood as confining ourselves to the specific construction and relative arrangement of parts inasmuch as in the future practice of the invention various changes and modifications may be made such as fall within the scope of our invention as defined in our appended claims, without departing Jfrom the principle of the invention.

Havino thus described the invention, what is claime and desired to besecured by Letters Patent, is: 4 Y

1. A game device of the character described, comprising a deck of playing cards without a joker, a field published in a newspaper or other periodica containing instructions, andfifty two additional sub-divided capital letters of the alphabet, and 26 of which have in'them respectively from a to z one of the small letters of the alphabet; an advertisement in each space; an indlcia of one of said playin cards in each space varya field published in a newspaper or othering each/'day accor ing to a previous shulliing 'and dealing of saidl cards.

2. The combination with a deck of play-` ing -cards exclusive of the joker, of a game device of the character described, comprising periodical, containing instructions, and fifty t'wo additional sub-divided spaces with indicia in each showing-date of respective publication, 26 of which have in them respectively rom A to Z one of the capital letters of the alphabet, and 26 of which have in them respectively from a to z one of the small letters of the alphabet; an advertisement in eachspace; an indicia of'one of said playing cards in each space varying each`day according to a previous shullling and. dealing of said cards.

3. A game device of the character described, compr-ising a deck of playing cards without a joker, a field published in a newspaper or other periodical, containing instructions, and fifty two additional subdivided Aspaces with indicia in each showing date of respective publication, 26 -of which 'varying each da an advertisement in each space; an indicia of one of said playing cards in each space according .to a previous shulling and dea ing of said cards; han-ds of live cards each, selected by cards occurring on the relative spaces with the letters identical with the capital initials and a sulicient number of the first small letters of the surname of each of said participants to aggregate five letters; a contest of said hands so selected according to a predetermined set of rules and published in said publication.

4. The combination with a Ideck of playing cards, exclusive of the joker, of a game device of the character described, comprising a field published in a newspaper or other periodical, containing instructions, and fifty two additional sub-divided spaces With indicia in each showing date of respective publication, 26 of which have in them respectively from A to Z one of the capital lletters of the alphabet, and 26 of which have in them respectively from a to z one of the small lettersof the alphabet; an advertisement in each space; an indicia of one of said playing cards in each space varyingl each day according to a previous shuiling and dealing of said cards; hands of five cards each, selected by cards occurring on the relative 'spaces with the letters identical with the capital initials and a sufficient number of the first small letters of have in them respectively from A to Z one"l of the capital letters of the alphabet, and 26 of which have in them respectively from a to z one oi the small letters of the alphabet;

the surname of each of said participants to aggregate five letters; a contest of said hands so selected according to a predetermined set` of rules and published in said publication.

MARION` E` BOSLEY.

LEON JAE KANE. 

